Photog Adventures Podcast: A Landscape Photography and Astrophotography Podcast (Photog Adventures)

I am back! It has been a long seven months while I have been focused on finalizing my Divorce and I am VERY HAPPY to report that I am 100% completely done! I am fully divorced! I am a single man again! In this episode I update you on my move, my 3-week girlfriend who went crazy on me, my goals for the future and the upcoming workshops which will be my LAST photography workshops for a very long while. I am so happy to be back in the saddle again without any of the weight of the divorce challenge looming over me anymore that I record THREE NEW EPISODES of the podcast that will all be released soon! I am really enjoying being back at it! I hope you enjoy it too!

Phil Sisto joins me to talk Milky Way Photography in the less-mentioned Capitol Reef National Park here in Utah where he was the 2020 Artist In Residence! Phil shares how he got the gig and the secrets to a good application. While also dishing on the great situation he had there with the amazing house they gave him to use while working there! From amazingly deep mud cracks around Cathedral Valley to making a 45-minute hike THREE HOURS LONGER, Phil shares his successes and misadventures while being the Artist in Residence. Phil uses Star Trackers in his Milky Way Photography and shares his best tip for post-processing the masked blend of your foreground and sky in photoshop. If you are seeing the podcast cover art I used from Phil, you are NOT getting the full glory of that image and will need to go Phil's Website to see this amazing image from the beautiful Milky Way at the top and the incredible hyper-foreground of the deeeeep cracks in the mud! It is an amazing shot! Check out Phil's Work right away! Website: PSistoImages.com https://psistoimages.com/ Instagram: P.Sisto.Images https://www.instagram.com/p.sisto.images/

Perseids are going to be great this year! The timing with the moon is working out really tremendous for us this year and so the annual Perseid Meteor Shower is going to be the best we have had in several years! So let's get ready for it! Know the best mornings to go out and tips on how to take advantage of it as best as possible! Kirk Keyes and Rhonda Pierce joins me on the podcast to talk the Perseid Meteor Shower and Rhonda's transition to a mirrorless Canon camera. Read Kirk's Perseid Meteor Shower article over on MilkyWayPhotographers.com: https://bit.ly/3CbbS9P

Aaron Martinez joins me to give us the inside info on his rise from Hobbyist photographer to having a FULL-TIME CAREER as a "Visual Journalist" or Staff Photographer for one of USA Today's Circulation of Austin, Texas Newspapers. He shares what worked and what he was missing in his interview process and spills some secrets on how one can join him as a career Journalism Photographer in an industry that is getting tougher and tougher to find a good paying job in. We also here his story of a potentially life-threatening wildlife encounter while in New Mexico and the story behind my absolute favorite picture out of White Sands National Park that Aaron captured years ago! I just LOVE his image! See Aaron's Portfolio here: https://aaronmartinez.myportfolio.com/ See that White Sands image: https://aaronmartinez.myportfolio.com/chasing-light SAVE 50% OFF TEN OF MY WORKSHOPS HERE: https://bit.ly/3pJbhFb This is a 1-DAY sale only, so if you are reading this on Friday, August 20th then CLICK ON THE LINK ASAP! Sale ends at Midnight Friday night! :D -Aaron

WORKSHOP DEAL: https://bit.ly/3uiLNCs Buckhorn Wash Pictograph Panel: https://bit.ly/3TlT7YX Arches Trailhead: https://bit.ly/3S1H7KX Hoodoo Village Parking: https://bit.ly/3MwT3TS In this episode I share my FIVE FAVORITE less traveled locations here in Utah. Often we go to the famous landmarks but wish we were somewhere with less people! These five locations will provide amazing views and easy to love compositions for either Milky Way or Landscape Photography. Throughout the episode, I share stories from each location while also describing the terrain, challenges and benefits of photography in these off-the-beaten-path locations that are still nearby classic Utah destinations.

The challenges and successes of Milky Way Photography in North Carolina! I just got back from my first Milky Way Workshop out on the East Coast and enjoyed some successes and crazy stories while out there! In this episode, I will go over FIVE THINGS: 1- Depressing Meal 2- First Night Near Fatal 3- Blue Ridge Parkway Milky Way "The Good and the Bad" 4- Rocks at Fort Fisher Milky Way "The Good and the Bad" 5- Final Goodbye to the Milky Way core at Caswell Beach Next week's episode: Winter Milky Way Panorama!

This week on the Photog Adventures Podcast I give you the FIVE TIPS you need for Winter Milky Way Panoramas! I won't tell what they are here so you still have to listen to me :D but I cover everything from the perfect window of opportunity for panorama as well as what hours during the night you can expect to be out there to be able to capture that perfect panorama window. The absolute best news is what is happening in February and March and what incredible fun challenge those months are bringing! I hope you will all join me in taking on the challenge of Winter Milky Way and what we get to do in February and March!

This week on Milky Way Wednesday I was joined by Clarence Spencer of SpencersCamera.com to answer all questions about Astro-modified cameras that the Milky Way Wednesday crowd could think up! In case you missed it and thousands of you most certainly did, here is a replay of the awesome breadth of knowledge that Clarence shared with my YouTube audience! This winter we all have been challenged to capture a Winter Milky Way Panorama and one of the most critical steps to a successful one is using an Astro-modded camera. Thanks to Clarence's business SpencersCamera.com we all have an affordable way to get that camera to use this winter! In between questions from the audience, Clarence also showed us how he edits his astro-modded images to give you a head-start once you capture your own astro-modded Milky Way image! Link to YouTube Video Version: https://youtu.be/OBblwHSoEYM

This week on the podcast I am joined by my first guest in a very long time, Jeroen Linnenkamp! Jeroen and I were talking about star color and he had the question about whether shutter could ruin star color the way that high ISO will blow out star color. I wasn't sure if there was a threshold when the exposure would start clipping the star color by shutter alone and so Jeroen did an experiment and shared the results with me for Milky Way Wednesday and today he talks about what those results mean to him. Along with that Jeroen shares adventures of Milky Way Photography from the Netherlands and a story about a beast that could have killed him while out enjoying fields of heather. Whether you are in the southwest of the United States or the low lands of Holland, Astrophotographers are always risking life and limb for the shot! Say thanks to Jeroen for joining the podcast by subscribing to his YouTube channel and following his instagram! Links below! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@StarScaperPhoto Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeroenlin/

The birth of Photog Adventures! Brendon Porter and Aaron King have committed to getting out in 2016 to build their landscape and astrophotography portfolios. Come along as they chronicle their adventures travelling around Utah and the surrounding areas. In this first podcast, we talk about Brendon's first ever capture of the Milky Way and our first adventure out when we traveled to Strawberry Reservoir in Utah at 1am so we could capture the early year Milky Way rising at 2:30am. Our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRkJafQa58CgbQqgqfmLHwg Our Website: http://www.photogadventures.com/

Out to the Knolls in the Salt Flats where we capture the awesome full arch of the Milky Way and discuss how crucial it is to capture before Astronomical Dawn.

Scouting locations with Google Earth, Aaron comes across an abandoned Train Trestle that looked perfectly aligned for Milky Way shots. Brendon and Aaron get out there on May 4th and discover one of their favorite nearby locations for capturing a beautiful Milky Way Nightscape!

After work, Brendon and Aaron go out on a last minute Photog Adventure where we travel to an overlook of the Salt Lake Valley. Brendon had found this location a few weeks earlier and we decided it would make an awesome spot for a sunset that evening since a rain storm had just been through. The clouds were great at sunset but it got even better when we decided to stick around and capture light trails from the passing traffic.

Aaron and Brendon capture a reflected Milky Way out at Mirror Lake & get a surprise hangout with a well-known photographer and author, Royce Bair.

In order to capture the Perseid Meteor Shower in an epic location with good weather, Brendon and Aaron travel down to Bryce Canyon National Park.

Brendon and Aaron get in two Astrophotography nights in a row at two completely different locations. Goosenecks State Park and Goblin Valley in Utah back in June. We discuss the challenges we faced capturing the large landscape of the Goosenecks compared to the intimate, in-your-face foreground of Goblin Valley. NOTE: Apologies for this podcast being a week late. There was a funeral in Canada that delayed things. But we are still on track for this week and will be releasing this week's podcast on schedule.

We hike two-hours up Dry Canyon trail looking for a location to capture the beautiful changing fall colors of the mountains of Utah Valley. Brendon and Aaron discuss the challenges of finding your great composition when overwhelmed with good options. Aaron gushes over the ease of using an L-bracket and why it's speed is quite critical when the light is changing and Brendon shares details on his Manfrotto Gearhead and why he prefers a gearhead over a ballhead tripod mount.

Our first Astrophotography trip to Zion National Park and we loved it! Already an amazing place in the day, it is fantastic at night! Following Jim Harmer's blog post "Photographer's Guide to Zion National Park" Brendon and Aaron make the most of their September weekend in Utah's best location, Zion National Park. Brendon and Aaron talk about all the locations they were able to visit and their success with Star Trails in Hoodoo City.

Thanks to a collaboration with ExtremeSpaceAdventures.com we send a GoPro Hero4 Black and a GoPro Session up into the Stratosphere! We really put the adventure into Photog Adventures when the Balloon and its payload housing our GoPros falls off the GPS radar at 10,000 feet up! Brendon and Aaron spend the next three weekends hunting the Mud Flats west of the Great Salt Lake for their GoPros.

Brendon and Aaron talk about the challenge of capturing the bright SuperMoon out in the Salt Flats of Utah. Once they arrived they were immediately faced with two obstacles that threatened to ruin their shots. The Salt Flats were completely flooded and clouds were building on the Eastern horizon!

Jeff Harmon the host of the Photo Taco podcast joins Brendon and Aaron to talk about photography, shooting in Utah and best practices of a Landscape Photographer. Jeff is the tech guru and host of the long running Photo Taco podcast over at improvephotography.com/phototaco/ a podcast dedicated to the beginner photographer and tip needing enthusiast photographer. Photo Taco is the perfect podcast for anyone just starting in photography who needs a great teacher, easy to understand to help you keep Lightroom running as quick as it can, size your photos for sharing online, tricks like exposure lock or back-button focus and pretty much anything else you can think of. We listen to Photo Taco every week and definitely recommend that you do too! Follow Jeff at: HTTP://JSHARMONPHOTOS.COM Instagram: @harmonjeff Twitter: @harmon_jeff IMPROVEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM/PHOTOTACO Instagram: @phototacopodcast Twitter: @PhotoTaco

Looking for hidden gems in Utah, we travel to Francis Peak, the Strawberry Pinnacles and Guardsman Pass to scout photogenic locations. Join us as we talk about our July scouting experience up on the frigid mountain top at Francis Peak, the towering but annoying red rock pinnacles near Strawberry Reservoir and the perfect Sunday drive location Guardsman Pass.

Brendon and Aaron recap the major and minor things about Landscape and Astrophotography they learned throughout 2016. Following through on our commitment to get out with our cameras more, we ended up getting out twice a month or more! We went to awesome locations with our cameras and tried many new techniques. We sit down before Christmas and look back on what we learned from all of it and share with you the mistakes we made and the techniques we succeeded at.

Here at the end of 2016, we look at most of the gear and equipment we used in our Photog Adventures for Landscape Photography and Astrophotography throughout the year and share the PROS and CONS of each piece of equipment. Learn what we liked, what we thought needs an upgrade and wasn't worth having this year. Thanks for following our Adventures this year! Have a Happy 2017 and if you haven't already, make this the year you get out there and have a Photog Adventure of your own!

We complain about the challenges of winter photography but discover a website to help with that. Plus share a few untold stories from our adventures in 2016. The logistics of getting out in the winter turned out to be greater than Aaron anticipated but a website he discovered called TheOutbound.com looks to fix that! Then the guys talk about trips to Notch Peak, Payson Temple and the Silo from 2016 that hadn't been shared yet on the podcast.

We join listener Dan for a Photog Adventure out to Fifth Water Hot Springs. The blue pools of water and flowing streams were a fantastic Landscape Photography setting! The weather was perfect but the ride on the hard packed snow in fat tire bikes was miserable. We talk about the challenges of using Fat Tire bikes in the wrong situation and the awesome opportunity it was to go out with fellow Photog Adventurer Dan Lindhardt! ANNOUNCEMENT: The Podcast will be released EVERY MONDAY from now on. We have decided to make it a consistent day and so expect a new Photog Adventure Podcast every Monday! Thanks for listening everyone!

Back in July Brendon and I ran into Astrophotographer and Author Royce Bair out at Mirror Lake. Ever since we have been fortunate to call ourselves friends with the great man and great photographer! We sit down with Royce and ask listener Astrophotography questions while adding our own for an awesome hour of night photography advice! We go over how to overcome the challenge of a slow lens f3.5 or worse and crop-sensor cameras, the technique of stacking multiple images, location scouting for your image and your light painting, discuss which lenses are ideal for Astrophotography and Royce shares his pick for an awesome hybrid lens strong in both Astro and Landscape Photography! Buy Royce's super informative and educational eBook "Milky Way Nightscapes" here: http://intothenightphoto.blogspot.com/2015/01/milky-way-nightscapes-ebook-preview.html Learn more about Low-Level-Lighting here at: http://lowlevellighting.org/

Extra Podcast episode where we share the 25 mins we spent talking about Royce's fascinating film and photography background. If you like the idea of getting into the weeds on aspects of how film for movies was edited, color corrected and hear about it from the perspective of a photographer who greatly enjoyed the transition from Film to Digital. Then you will enjoy this bonus excerpt about Royce Bair's professional background. Regular Podcast episode returns on Monday the 6th. NOTE: During the podcast Royce mentioned some early digital to analog film output and couldn't remember the names of the machines. They were the Solitaire and the Kodak LVT. The Solitaires were used to output digitally retouched files to 35mm slides or negatives. The cost up to $60,000 each. The cine models were used to output special computer effects for some of the Star Wars movies and other special effect movies (often done by Lucas' "Industrial Light and Magic" division). They often had up to a dozen of these film recorders going day and night to output the film for the movies (because it takes 24 frames for just one second of on screen time); http://www.promarketinc.com/pdf/mgisolitairecineiiiflx.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_recorder For larger color transparencies or color negatives, used for large printing (4x5 and 8x10), the Kodak LVT was the better film recorder technology. They cost about $170,000. https://artofplatinum.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/light-valve-technology-lvt-platinum-printing/ Back in the mid 90’s Replicolor.com, here in SLC, had 3 Solitaires and one LVT.

Hanging out & talking Winter Landscape Photography in Southern Utah with Photographer Nathan St. Andre. We go over many tips on Winter Photography in that area from locations to smart clothing to survive the temperatures and remain comfortable without going out like the kid from the Christmas Story where he couldn't put his arms down. Link to the awesome map Nathan talked about that has all of the Slot Canyons in the US and some in Canada: http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?62130-The-Super-Amazing-Canyoneering-Map Follow Nathan: http://www.standrephotography.com/ http://www.facebook.com/nathanstandrephotography/

We sit down with Rusty Parkhurst and talk about his success of getting an image of his noticed by a Tourism agency in Missouri that ultimately used one of Rusty's images for the 2017 Official Missouri Travel Guide! Rusty shares with us how his image was found and received by the agency and his top tips for having the same success with your photography. See more of Rusty's work on his website at: RustyParkhurst.com As well as his articles on ImprovePhotography.com

Brendon and I have the privilege to hangout with Dr. Bryony Richards and have a blast sharing Astrophotography adventure stories from all over the world. From her time in Namibia, South Africa and New Zealand Bryony always loved the stars but it wasn't until a sleepless night in Utah when she found her love of photographing the crazy cloud in the night sky, the Milky Way.

We get the awesome opportunity to visit with Ian Norman of LonelySpeck.com and pick his brain for brilliant ideas on how to work with light pollution using his Pure Night filter, why we should all be using a 50mm lens more in our Astrophotography, and more tricks of the trade to do with stacking, panoramas and how to record a seamless Day-to-Night Timelapse. Pure Night can be ordered here: http://www.lonelyspeck.com/purenight/ Less than 100 left! Follow Ian: Instagram @inorman: https://www.instagram.com/inorman/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lonelyspeck Website: http://www.lonelyspeck.com/ Travel Vlog: http://northtosouth.us/

In a whirlwind trip we drive all night to get as many nights in Yosemite as we can over President's Day weekend to capture the Firefall Phenomenon. We have three nights and four days to make this newly discovered but definite bucket list dream come true! Fighting through flooding, holiday weekend crowds and car troubles we have a valuable weekend in Yosemite National Park meeting many new friends and getting a chance to spread the word about Photog Adventures.

After a whirlwind week down in Arizona for the ImprovePhotography.com Listener Retreat, we hang out in Zion National Park with Rusty Parkhurst on way back home. Recording from an ironing board in our hotel, we take time from our Grand Finale adventure to Zion to recap what we learned from the retreat. Plus we tell stories from EIGHT different Photog Adventures between Arizona and Utah where we had plenty go wrong and right for us in our photography. Please go out and follow Rusty's photography at http://rustyparkhurst.com/

We share the remaining untold photog adventures from our trip back home through Zion National Park. Returning from the Improve Photography Retreat, we hang out in Zion with Rusty Parkhurst and do one last hike with him up to Kanarra Creek Falls. We go over our successes and missteps hiking Kanarra Creek Falls and capturing sunsets from the Canyon Overlook in Zion and the Cedar Breaks. We also announce the contest to earn the FINAL COPY of Royce Bair's eBook Milky Way Nightscapes! See Rusty's work at RustyParkhurst.com

Jeff Harmon of Photo Taco fame guest hosts to discuss with us the expectations and things learned as a Presenter or Participant of the recent Improve Photography Retreat. We share funny stories from the retreat and what we all learned from our 4-day adventure in Phoenix. Come learn what you can expect from a photography conference like this or photography workshop. That is, what you can expect from the great people over at Improve Photography. The Improve Photography Retreat 2018 will be in Charleston, South Carolina.

Hanging out with my Brother-in-Law Travis Eggett, we talk about the hike to Donut Falls back in January. Up Cottonwood Canyon, Donut Falls is a short hike which makes it crazy popular in the winter. Despite being surrounded by deep snow we didn't require our snowshoes and then we complain about the crazy high dynamic range of a white waterfall and black cave.

After getting forced from Yosemite early due to weather, we make the most of the drive back home by making stops at Death Valley National Park and Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park. We test Canon's 70-300mm lens out at Badwater Basin and then discover a stupid rule at Valley of Fire State Park while trying to capture the sunset. Here is the Goal Zero Yeti 400 Aaron was talking about: Goal Zero 23000 Yeti 400 Solar Generator http://amzn.to/2oPvFFd

Announcing the Astro Photog Podcast! The Photog Adventures show entirely focused on Astrophotography! Every Thursday Aaron King will bring you an Astro-centered episode to help make those 7-days between Photog Adventures Podcasts a little less boring! Beginning each podcast with the Astro Primer, Aaron will talk about what the night sky is doing so you have a quick 5-minutes or less place to hear whether you should be catching up on sleep in preparation for a long night out under the Milky Way! This alpha episode talks about the motivation about Astro Photog, the content here and on YouTube everyone can expect from Astro Photog as well some behind the scenes stories in creating content. Next week's episode will feature Travis Eggett and Daniel Lindhardt as they talk about our first three Milky Way outings of the season. Here is the link to Roger Clark's comprehensive writings on how to keep a natural color of the Milky Way in your image processing: http://clarkvision.com/articles/color.of.the.night.sky/

We try to take advantage of the Full Moon at beautiful Temple Square but we are faced with the challenge of getting a great shot that contains the moon and an interesting foreground subject. The Listener Photog Adventure image will be posted to the show notes on PhotogAdventures.com real soon. Most likely by the time you are reading this. Links to the Emergency Recovery Tracks, both a metal and rubber option: Rubber Option 2 for $40 http://amzn.to/2nzGbV4 Metal option 1 for $40 http://amzn.to/2nXTGJh

We sit down with Astrophotographer Eric Benedetti who has made a name for himself exclusively using star tracking equipment for his Milky Way photography. Eric's image of Wild Horse Cave has been featured in Digital Photo Magazine. We discuss the hardware and mindset required to do tracking astrophotography and we get Eric's recommendations on the gear you need among some lenses he recommends for Astrophotography. Gear recommended for tracking: SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Astro Package with Declination Bracket included $329 https://goo.gl/VLdx4d SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Equatorial Wedge Base https://goo.gl/Yj8ZPy SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Counterweight Kit https://goo.gl/ShxymX Cameras for the beginner: Nikon D7200 https://goo.gl/8yiR0F Canon T5i https://goo.gl/UEiaMk Lenses: Rokinon 16mm f2.0 https://goo.gl/7oSP1w Rokinon 24mm f1.4 https://goo.gl/1rpaFi Sigma Art 35mm f1.4 https://goo.gl/E9U6fKS Optional tracker that is slightly less expensive: iOptron SkyTracker Pro Camera Mount with Polar Scope $299 https://goo.gl/UuojC9

Royce Bair returns to the podcast and talks about his Milky Way capture over at Hanksville Butte, answers listener questions live over Facebook, civility among photographers and gives us an update on the National Parks considering joining Arches and Canyonlands with banning light painting and night photography workshops. F&V Z96 UltraColor LED Light (Same as Aaron purchased but as of today, out of stock.) http://amzn.to/2oZGyHj In-Stock option for F&V HDV-Z96 II Z-flash LED Light http://amzn.to/2oZsm1d Larger Capacity Battery for F&V light http://amzn.to/2opJU86 Apps recommended by Royce for planning are PhotoPills & SkyGuide. Find Royce's workshops and Photo Walks here at http://nightscapeevents.com/ or https://www.meetup.com/NightScape-Photography/

PictureMonk Jordan Younce talks design principles in Photography with Aaron & Brendon and his new YouTube series called "The Road to Full Time" about his pathway to doing Photography Full Time. Aaron shares a design style guide that he used from his time at Disney when he worked on the game Disney Infinity. Referencing the style guide, we talk about how we can all use basic design principles to help our landscape photography have the kind of balance and interest that well-designed logos or marketing assets have. Jordan Younce's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/picturemonk Remember PLEASE add your comment if you watch his video, thanks! :D  Jordan's Gear pick of the week: Smatree Full Aluminum Hot Shoe Mount Adapter for GoPro https://goo.gl/rZUnD4 Fotasy SCX2 1/4-inch Hot Shoe Adapter https://goo.gl/9g74Lt Jordan's Porfolio http://www.photographynorthcarolina.com/ Picturemonk http://www.picturemonk.com/

We talk about our "a bit too early" trip up to the Grand Teton National Park and the drawbacks of long lens timelapse photography. The clouds were amazing and dynamic hovering over the Grand Teton but we spent most of the sunrise and sunset with clouds blocking the pictoresque peak. Scouting around on the few roads that were open we discover the location of the famous John Moulton barn and try our hand at a sunset shot at the barn. Listener Photog Adventure of the Week is in Scotland with Ross Campbell. Power banks recommended in Gear Time with Brendon: Jackery Giant Power Bank 12,000 mAh https://goo.gl/5LhK9U Anker PowerCore+ Mini 3350 mAh https://goo.gl/0IbXYw Links to the Emergency Recovery Tracks, both a metal and rubber option: Rubber Option 2 for $40 amzn.to/2nzGbV4 Metal option 1 for $40 amzn.to/2nXTGJh

NOTE: Astro Photog Episode 3 is halfway done being edited and I will upload it later today the 16th! Aaron details the reasons he uses four apps and websites to plan his Milky Way Photography. DarkSiteFinder.com, Stellarium, PhotoPills and ClearDarkSky.com. For Gear Time Aaron is joined by Eric Benedetti to talk an awesome telephoto Rokinon lens for Deep-Sky or close-up Milky Way Astrophotography. Rokinon 135mm F2.0 ED UMC Telephoto Lens https://goo.gl/trhCpg DarkSiteFinder.com Map: https://goo.gl/iI82WG Stellarium: https://goo.gl/cVXopQ PhotoPills: https://goo.gl/i1c0XN ClearDarkSky.com: https://goo.gl/a7OQrl SkippySky.com.au: https://goo.gl/vzTo0S

Aaron talks about the Listener Adventure where we went to capture the Milky Way at the House on Fire Ruins and Natural Bridges National Monument in Southern Utah. Kathy Henehan and Jeff Pedersen join Aaron for a weekend of photography and we are able to capture one of Kathy's first Milky Way images. Carson LumiLoupe Series Pre-Focused Stand Magnifier https://goo.gl/06R0k6 BelOMO 10x Triplet Loupe Folding Magnifier https://goo.gl/SKAmv1

We go into the details on why we decided to start a Patreon, the options we have been trying to get us funded and the specifics of the many rewards we offer for those that join us. Then we go over our goals for the future of Photog Adventures and what getting properly funded will mean for the YouTube channel and podcast. Thanks for taking the time to listen to this episode and we really hope many of you will join us and become Patrons of Photog Adventures! SEE THE PATREON VIDEO HERE: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures

We hangout with world renowned Australian Photographer Mark Gee and talk about the incredible patience and planning it took for him to capture his famous video of the full moon rising on top of silhouettes of people enjoying the view at a lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. If you haven't watched the video yet, go to the link below and watch it right now! Everything was so well planned out and perfected over months of trial and error. It is awe-inspiring! We also go over the scary and the hilarious of getting out with your camera at night and absorb all the wisdom and info Mark is willing to impart for how he deals with noisy foregrounds, captures timelapses and when is best to travel to New Zealand for the best view of the core of the Milky Way. See Mark's inspiring 4-minute film "Full Moon Silhouettes" here: https://youtu.be/ehulHtKfpuM The Timelapse+ that Mark uses for Timelapse photography: http://www.timelapseplus.com/

We decided to re-make our original Patreon video by hitting up classic landmarks of Southern Utah in one weekend. Between Friday evening and Saturday evening we hit Goblin Valley State Park, Monument Valley National Park, Natural Bridges National Monument and Balanced Rock up in Arches National Park while getting weathered out of stops at House on Fire Ruins and Goosenecks State Park. Then a few days later we added even more miles and hit the Bonneville Salt Flats to complete the full video. It was a tremendously fast trip with amazing sights! We talk about the challenges of the trip, the failures, our sunrise at Monument Valley along with news of our Listener Survey and PhotoPills contest. Note: adding Listener Photog Adventure image link here shortly! See the PhotoPills contest here where you can win 1 of 3 free copies of the PhotoPills app by simply posting an image to your own instagram: https://goo.gl/9wYbuj Help us out by taking the 2-5 minute listener survey here: https://goo.gl/forms/CDIuPcidC2P4213Y2

We spend Memorial Day Weekend out at the Grand Staircase - Escalante area and experience crazy dust, beautiful clear night skies, terribly annoying washboard dirt roads, actually visible but partial Aurora and get lost walking in a straight path. All with our buddy and guide Jeff Pedersen. Astrophotography is usually a challenge, but out at Escalante there are photogenic setting on top of photogenic setting making the only difficulty waiting until the next nightfall so you can start capturing images again. What a beautiful place for Milky Way Photography. Sorry for the delay, the audio quality and the shortened Gear Time. We intended gear time to talk up the contest that would have been ending two days after the podcast was released but audio quality delays and flooding at Aaron's house delayed the podcast edit. Sorry all! Awesome watch Garmin Fenix 3: http://amzn.to/2re6h1G Listener Survey Help us out by taking the 2-5 minute listener survey here: goo.gl/forms/CDIuPcidC2P4213Y2

Rafael "The Bard" Pons joins us on the podcast & LIVE on YouTube to answer listener questions about the PhotoPills app. A MUCH DIFFERENT podcast than the usual as we take listener questions live and in my edit I skip over the questions. Most likely better as a video, see the live uncut presentation here: https://youtu.be/n0VUDOB9F8c With listener questions and our own, we learn many previously unknown shortcuts where a single tap or double tap can lead you more quickly to the next astronomical milestone. Rafael also explains to us how to use the Search tool from the bottom bar of the planner, what the column of blue bars are next to the circled Milky Way image on the Planner, how to best plan for Golden Hour light, how to be certain you won't be in the shadow of terrain and many other tips. Listener Survey Help us out by taking the 2-5 minute listener survey here: goo.gl/forms/CDIuPcidC2P4213Y2

When a scheduled podcast is requested by the guest to be pushed back a couple weeks, we decide to go on a last-minute impromptu adventure and bring our podcast equipment along with us! We travel up Big Cottonwood Canyon to Guardsman Pass and then hike to a potentially perfect spot for the sunrise. We talk about the challenge of making the most of a cloudless sky, using PhotoPills to know where to set up the camera and push ourselves into a sleepless night just to make sure the podcast doesn't go out any later.

Taking a break from our travels on the road to Bandon, Oregon, we have the awesome opportunity to have a call with Thomas Heaton and talk about his success in YouTube, pick his brain for what he does right whether intentional or not and got to hear about some of his awesome Landscape Photography adventures. Learn why Thomas doesn't do Astrophotography, how he isn't interested in the analytics and strategies of YouTube but just likes to focus on sharing the story of getting out there with your camera. He brings us along to Zion National Park, talks a future trip to Antartica and explains how his perspective has changed as he has done Landscape Photography.

Joined by Kirk Keyes, we talk about the challenges of beach sunsets, finding our way in a new place, the comforts of AirBNB and an awesome night with a fantastic Beach Milky Way! Stanley's image will be in the Show Notes at our website that is coming soon. For now, you can see his image on our Facebook Listeners Group. Gemtune DH-55 Panoramic Ball Head with Indexing Rotator https://goo.gl/oVUtA7 Link to Donna's AirBNB page: https://goo.gl/26ZVct

We talk about the amazing dark skies at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon and the challenges of staying up nearly all night for Milky Way Photography only to need to try and get sleep in the heat of the day! Awesome timelapses, the dangers of traversing the crater in the dark of night and the brilliant benefits of using a star tracker system in Astrophotography. Special thanks to Kirk Keyes from KeyesPhoto.com for joining us on the podcast and for the whole Oregon trip! Can't wait to get out there again with him! #LPA Listener Photog Adventure comes from Kevin Jordan about his sunrise image from Acadia National Park. Link to Kirk's Timelapse Video: https://youtu.be/KCAETt5u4L8

Today's episode is not a normal episode. It is about inspiration. Many of us as we discover our love of photography dream about that day when your entire job is playing with a camera all day! But how can we do that? We are Landscape Photographers. We are Milky Way Photographers. So how are we going to win the photography lottery and make money doing those? You probably won't. You are probably like me and Brendon and will need to find a revenue stream that will support your lifestyle of going out doing your favorite type of photography and allow you freedom to travel with your camera at any time during the day. PictureMonk Jordan Younce joins us to reveal the two things he is doing to earn his paycheck: Sleeklens.com content creation and Real-Estate Photography. Sleeklens.com Discount Code - Jordan10 Contact Jordan@sleeklens.com for inquiries about working with SleekLens. Lightroom Presets Out of the Shadows (HDR and Landscape Presets) - https://sleeklens.com/product/hdr-lightroom-presets/ Superior Interior (Real Estate) - https://sleeklens.com/product/interior-lightroom-presets/ Above the Clouds (Drone and Aerial) - https://sleeklens.com/product/aerial-photography-presets/ Chasing Light - https://sleeklens.com/product/chasing-light-workflow/ Free Presets and Photoshop Actions https://sleeklens.com/product/the-starter-pack-lightroom-presets/ https://sleeklens.com/product-category/photoshop-actions/

Chris joins us from Belgium months ago to talk about his experience as an Olympus Visionary, traveling the world from the deserts of Namibia to the weathered rocks of the Faroe Islands and his recently announced short film about the Dreamwalkers Highlining team who conquered amazing heights at the Faroe Islands. Chris also shares with us his experience starting out working with Chris Burkard and why he uses the yellow jacketed or red jacketed model in almost all of his shots. See more of Chris' work at ChrisEyreWalker.com See Chris' DreamWalkers video trailer here: https://youtu.be/y9QFhORYOrM The Making Of videos: https://youtu.be/aTazWBBZmVs

We are privileged to be joined by Adam Karnacz of First Man Photography fame on YouTube whose Landscape Photography vlogs take us to the Lake District and other beautiful areas in the UK. Adam discusses his typical approach to landscape composition, techniques and the challenges of keeping photography going being a family man with a wife and two daughters that depend on him. We also get to learn a lot about his method for Water Drop photography that is just beautiful and crazy enough is the highest selling thing of all his work! Link to Adam's website: https://goo.gl/yhsYcP First Man Photography YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/qZPWh9 Adam's awesome Water Drop Photography: https://goo.gl/uasVTo

Join Aaron, Brendon & Brent Huntley LIVE from Idaho for multiple segments before, during and after the Total Solar Eclipse. Listen in on 3 mins of raw audio from the moment of Totality where Aaron can't get it together because of the awesomeness! Brendon joins Aaron and Brent through a phone call as he is in the Idaho Falls area where Brent and Aaron are over in Donnelly, Idaho above Boise. Laugh at how well-laid plans go to the wayside, scouting locations end up not even being used and how this experience turns the guys into Eclipse hunters! Remember to support Photog Adventures on your next lens rental by using LensProToGo.com with the 10% discount code "Adventure10"! Next Total Solar Eclipse stretches over Chile and Argentina on July 2nd, 2019. Feel up for an international Listener Adventure?! :D Would be awesome!

Quick update for all of you who don't follow the Facebook Live or YouTube Live videos we have done the past few weeks so you know about the technical issues of our current failing computer and how it has delayed our content lately. Plus the great news that a new computer is out for delivery today and that things are going to get back to normal along with celebrating our first anniversary as Photog Adventures turns 1 on September 8th. This is a short podcast episode just to update you guys but no worries more content to come all week long so stay tuned!

Join us for a Photog Adventure! Ever wanted to join Brendon Porter and Aaron King on a Photog Adventure? 2018 is going to be your chance to join us and learn how to do Milky Way Photography! Starting in March we will have workshops in Utah at Goblin Valley State Park, Natural Bridges National Monument, Goosenecks State Park, Bonneville Salt Flats, Knolls Recreational Area, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Oregon's Bandon Beach area and Crater Lake National Park, Mirror Lake, an abandoned Silo, Trestle, Delta Sand Dunes as well as potentially Zion National Park! Brendon and I are very excited for next year and hope you guys want to come join us!

We finally get a chance to hang out with our friend Landscape and Astrophotographer Joshua Snow and talk with him about his crazy trip to Reflection Canyon and how he got the shot to look amazing with his Stacking Technique he uses in Starry Landscape Stacker. Listen as Josh explains in great detail how he does his stacking images and get tips and tricks for your own Milky Way Photography.

Hangout with us from Brendon's vehicle as we share untold stories from previous trips, an attempt at the Full Moon rise from Guardsman Pass, talk with Daniel Lindhardt about his text "And....I blew it" and hear how testing the Sigma 14mm f1.4 went for Brendon in his Gear Time videos that are coming next week! Untold stories include car troubles from Oregon, crazy wind and awesome astrophotography at the Salt Flats, Hanging with Nick Page or was it Nick Cave...and excitement as Brendon and I are only days from our ONE YEAR mark at the time of recording this podcast back in September.

Photog Adventures has turned 1! September 8th marks the day we went live on YouTube and on the podcast back on September 8th 2016! We join you live on Facebook and YouTube to celebrate one year of awesome work and fun! Podcast Episode 50 coming Tuesday along with the bonus VIDEO PODCAST interview with Nick Page. Enjoy!

To celebrate hitting 50 podcast episodes we hang out with our Admins from the Facebook Listeners Group Daniel Lindhardt, Darrell Harrington, Rob Ryan and Dean Vinson. These guys have become our best friends on the Facebook Group as they have been a part of the Photog Adventures team since December last year! Their hard work on keeping the Facebook group from sucking and being really fun guys to work with deserved some recognition so Brendon and I spend an hour hearing about their beginnings in photography, their scariest adventure this past year, where they love to go close to home for photography and the one thing they have learned this year that they want to pass along. If you don't mind a bunch of dudes ribbing each other, laughing loudly and hanging out giggling like a bunch of 14-year-old girls you will enjoy this podcast. Special thanks to our other two Facebook Admins who unfortunately couldn't make it this episode: Brent Huntley and Josh Moore.

The weekend before our first Photog Adventures Workshop we hang out with Rafael Pons and Joshua Snow at their Workshop at Arches National Park. Making new friends and having more time in the weekend to kill, we went out to Dead Horse Point for sunrise, spent the day taking the scenic route in Canyonlands National Park and then blitzed down to Natural Bridges National Monument to take in one of the last opportunities for Milky Way Photography in Utah's First Dark Sky Park under the ever photogenic Owochomo Bridge! Sign up for our upcoming Oregon Listener Adventure here: https://listeneradventures.photogadventures.com/listeneradventuresignup Check in regularly at this page for news of our next Listener Adventures: http://photogadventures.com/listeneradventure/

In one of our longest podcasts yet, we recap our fantastic week long trip out to North Carolina where we hang out with Jordan Younce of PictureMonk Fame and SleekLens.com notoriety. We muse on the discomforts of airplane travel, preparing for a photog adventure correctly, Brendon's famous waterfall break dance, challenges of sunrises and sunsets in a land with a lot of tall trees, being too early for fall colors, sunrise with fog at a nearby lake, the beaches of North Carolina and the crazy apes we met at the Linn Cove Viaduct. In short, we saw ALL of North Carolina with Jordan and Roger Younce from the Blue Ridge Parkway all the way to the beaches south of Wilmington and had a blast out there! See Jordan's YouTube video about the trip here: https://youtu.be/y4QpWZyxEGI Hear his PictureMonk podcast here: http://picturemonk.com/pmp085/ Sign up for our Listener Adventures here: http://photogadventures.com/listeneradventure/

We hang out with the ONE and ONLY Nick Page! Landscape Photographer extraordinaire and all around great guy, Nick Page joins us for a Photog Adventure Podcast to share the behind the scene stories of three amazing images. His awe-inspiring Aurora capture out in the Palouse earlier this year in May, his shot from Oregon Coast where seagulls were right on top of an incredible wave and won him #5 Landscape Photographer of the Year in the US with it and shared his experience and stories from capturing the Aurora out in Iceland. As Nick shares his story and perseverance to get out there and get his camera to these amazing locations we pick up tips on how to prepare yourself for awesome aurora, crashing waves and how not to sleep when you really want to because the conditions are just right for an amazing night sky. SHOW NOTES Wave Apps Magic Seaweed: https://magicseaweed.com/ Surf Line: iOS Windy: iOS Google Aurora App & Website Aurora Pro: iOS Google AuroraNotifier.com Check out Nick’s Landscape Photography Podcast here: https://www.landscapephotographypodcast.com/ Check out Nick’s Tutorials, Work and Workshops here: http://www.nickpagephotography.com/

We talk about our first ever Workshop and how challenging, fun and crazy it was hanging out with Rafael Pons from PhotoPills fame and our 30 new friends who joined us for the weekend! From the challenging logistics of getting 30 people safely and successfully to our Dark Sky Sites driving themselves and how we battled with red lights from people's headlamps as a mixed group of skill and camera familiarity were all jammed into a spot meant for 12 or less at MOST! We also share our Black Friday Announcements about the discounted offerings we have available along with Aaron's huge announcement of his upcoming release of a Milky Way Online Course! Listen to the major discounts being offered over Friday and Saturday THIS WEEK and take advantage of the ones that make sense for you! Current pricing at Photog Adventures Storefront: http://photogadventures.com/store/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures Pelican Case for keeping your Memory Cards safe: https://goo.gl/7E5rkQ

On this Cyber Monday, I talk about the behind the scenes of recording my first upcoming Milky Way Photography Online Course for Beginners that is coming out Dec. 26th. Stories of recording at locations of Salt Flats, Goblin Valley, Goosenecks, Natural Bridges, Knolls, Crater Lake and Mirror Lake. Expiring tonight at Midnight East Coast Time, get the $50 OFF deal right now at BlackFriday.PhotogAdventures.com https://blackfriday.photogadventures.com/blackfridaydeal_storefront The Course will not be on sale again until Dec. 26th when it launches at $67 which is still $30 off the final price of $97 that will be what I continue to sell the course at from Feb. 1st on.

We share the successes and failures of our photog adventure up Dry Canyon. Hiking almost two hours to get to this amazing view from a rocky outcropping on the side of this Rocky Mountain foothill is such an amazing setting for some fall colors and Landscape Photography. The Sunset was potentially going to be blocked by a thick layer of clouds but optimism and perseverance won the day as the clouds opened up and bathed the magical, colorful landscape in amazing light.  SHOW NOTES Photog Adventures Storefront: http://photogadventures.com/store/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures Use code "Adventure10" to get an extra 10% off at LensProToGo.com #LPA Listener Photog Adventure: Ryan Luna The wife asked if we could go away camping to the Grand Canyon last weekend. A bit different Thanksgiving, but who was I to say no? So...I was able to book a site at Mather Campground on Tuesday after spending a couple days constantly refreshing the website to see if one would become available. Lucky!!! Drove the family 7ish hours from Orange County Thursday morning and arrived to the campsite at 3PM. I have a lot of images over the 2 days we spent there, but here is one from Friday morning at 5AM trying to get the opposite side of the Milkyway core. Canon 6D Rokinon 24mm F/1.4 Sky = single image Terra Firma = 3 image stack.

Invited by Larry Petersen from the Pocatello Photo Club to join them at Bryce Canyon National Park for a day, we got the opportunity to capture a beautiful short sunrise at Inspiration Point, a sunset from the top of a mile hiking trail in Losee Canyon and hang out roadside capturing Star Trails over Red Canyon's famous drive through arch on a night of a Full Moon. We discuss the challenges of meeting up with a group we have never met in person in the pre-sunrise pitch black morning, getting a room for a few hours of shut eye mid-day, how we don't remember hikes being as hard as they end up being, seeing the awesome cliffside tree at Losee Trail, more afterglow amazement and then end the day the best way possible with some Astrophotography doing Star Trails in Red Canyon. This week's Listener Photog Adventure features Kevin Bell's shot at Bassi Falls near Lake Tahoe in California. See his image and more of his story at the Show Notes at PhotogAdventures.com/ep57! Didn't win a Carson Lumiloupe to help get perfect focus for your Milky Way Photography? Go buy one for $5 here at Amazon and help support Photog Adventures! https://goo.gl/rKxrLk

We go out with Daniel Lindhardt for some late season Milky Way Photography over the Sand Dunes of the Little Sahara here in Utah. Looking forward to enjoying the peace and quiet of cold October temperatures out at the Sand Dunes but instead we find that there are hordes of people out there! We talk about the challenges of lighting the dunes with only one light, staying safe amidst all those Can-Am and ATVs flying all over the place and difficulty with composition over light polluted spots and the 1-hour visible only Milky Way Core. THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION JUST INFO: http://amzn.to/2kn0ocg We have optimism this light will work great but until we give it some real tests we can't recommend it.

We hang out with ultra popular and world renowned Milky Way and Landscape Photographer Michael Shainblum! We get an awesome opportunity to learn from Michael and get a chance to pick up some tips and tricks while hearing stories of his adventures out in places like Alabama Hills and unsuspecting amazing seascapes off San Francisco. We get a priceless experience to breakdown the creation, process and decisions behind two fantastic Ocean Landscape Images of his The Phoenix and The Rapture and get his advice for how to do more quality landscape images for new photographers like us! See Michael's images we talk about in the Show Notes at PhotogAdventures.com/Ep59 Follow Michael Shainblum at his website at ShainblumPhoto.com Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/shainblumphotography/ Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/shainblumphoto/ MyTracks App for iOS only iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mytracks-the-gps-logger/id358697908?mt=8

World Famous Australian Landscape Photographer Serena Ho joins the podcast to share her near death experience in Iceland, the power of story in your photography, inspiration in nature and inspiration for all of us working to make a name for ourselves in Photography. Serena has had amazing experiences worldwide these last few years thanks to her brave approach to following the dream of being a Landscape Photographer. Inspiring us to be better and live the dream the way we ALL wish we could! See more of Serena's work at her website: http://www.serena-ho.com/ Follow Serena's World Travels at her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/serenavsworld/ Or Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/serenavsworld/

When you need something really different and very cool, Steel Wool Photography is a fantastic option! AS LONG AS YOU ARE SAFE! We talk about two separate trips where we go out to do Steel Wool Photography With Jeff, Melanie and Corey who teach us why it is so easy to be addicted to this type of Night Photography. Heading out to a place nearby called "Little Moab" we almost start a fire on our WAY there and then risk Brendon's Mercedes once again traveling to places we probably shouldn't be and then find ourselves enamored with the chaos and beauty of Steel Wool Photography. Follow these guys' awesome Instagram Feed: Jeff: @Uncle_Egghead_Photography Melanie: @MamoJeep_Photography Corey: @WhatISeeFromHere YouTube video on "How To: Steel Wool Photography" https://youtu.be/injY1GbbBY4

We had an amazing Listener Adventure out in Oregon back in November and there are a LOT of stories to tell. To help us discuss the challenges of Wave Photography along the Oregon Coastline are listeners Drew Armstrong and Kirk Keyes who join us for three straight podcasts! This first podcast of the three focuses on the first days of our trip where wake up for the sunset in Northern California for Redwoods photography and then spend the evening out in Samuel H. Boardman's at Secret Beach and coincidentally meet Michael Shainblum and Serena Ho! Peak Design Capture Clip: https://goo.gl/RcLkd6 Peak Design Capture Pad: https://goo.gl/UP596v Peak Design LensCapture Kit for Canon: https://goo.gl/yus1BN Check out Drew's photography at DrewArmstrong.com and Kirk's at KeyesPhoto.com!

Second Part of our Oregon Coast 2017 Listener Adventure and this time we are in Bandon, Shore Acres State Park and at the Heceta Head Lighthouse! This trip had been fantastic but a day of rain moved us from the Brookings area up to Bandon with hope that the skies would clear by sunrise the next day and boy did the skies change! We talk about our working hard to take advantage of the gap in the cloudy skies at Bandon and later on Shore Acres on our way up to Heceta Head Lighthouse. We ended up barely catching a short-lived mostly clouded out sunset from the road at an overlook across the bay from Heceta Head Lighthouse and then hike up to the lighthouse to capture it at night while the lights are shining. It was a stunning adventure from Bandon to Heceta Head and was made even that much better with another day of hanging out with Michael Shainblum and Serena Ho! Again thank you to John, Kirk and Drew for joining us on the podcast to share their what went wells and challenges! Here is a link to the NRS Boundary socks: https://goo.gl/csk5Xc Silver Sharpie for labeling your memory cards: https://goo.gl/KzDPNK AirBNB: https://www.airbnb.com/ Really Good Photo Spots: https://improvephotography.com/rgps/

In this CRAZY EXTRA LONG EPISODE we cover our adventures from Sunrise out at famous Thor’s Well, awesome but frustrating sunset at Yaquina Head Lighthouse, great sunrise at Yaquina Bay Bridge, an AMAZING and highlight of the trip Sunset out at Cape Kiwanda and then an equally amazing sunrise out at Cannon Beach to finish out our trip along the Oregon Coast in November. We are joined by listeners John Henry Maurice and Kyle Kephart throughout this podcast and at times it happens suddenly. Despite my best efforts editing them in, some transitions will be sudden. Apologize for that and the length of this podcast but there is just too much good stuff to get stingy in episode 64! 1 hour and 26 mins into this podcast listen as Brendon finally reveals that he has possibly FOUND his lost memory card that carried thousands of images from his entire first half of the Oregon Coast trip! Again thank you to all of you who joined Brendon and I on this Listener Adventure to the Oregon Coast! We really had a blast out there with listeners Drew Armstrong, Kirk Keyes, John Henry Maurice, Kyle Kephart and new friends Michael Shainblum and Serena Ho. Not going to be an adventure soon forgotten and definitely worth the extra long feature on the podcast. So many amazing places out in Oregon! If you haven’t been there yet, start planning to join us next year for the November Listener Adventure 2018! Check out Drew’s photography at DrewArmstrong.com and Kirk’s at KeyesPhoto.com! Follow Kyle Kephart on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/compellingimaging/ or follow his blog at http://www.compellingimaging.com/theblog/ Follow my Canon camera body cap guardian angel Casey Cooke on his photography adventures here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caseycookephotography/ Website: http://caseycookephotography.com/ Follow Josh Riggs on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/joshriggsphotography/ Follow Rafa La Madrid on his instagram at https://www.instagram.com/rafatheperuvian/ Here is a link to the NRS Boundary socks: https://goo.gl/csk5Xc Link to Drew’s NRS Zephyr Inflatable PFD fanny pack life-preserver: https://goo.gl/VtVa1a GAIA GPS Maps: https://www.gaiagps.com/

In this second to last episode of 2017 we go over some of the major things we learned through more practice in our Landscape Photography and Astrophotography. Some of these can be obvious and are things we all know, but until you are out there enough and recognize when you are NOT doing them DESPITE KNOWING them or when you realize you are doing them just a little wrong it can make a big difference to your photography. After a year of going out to over 65 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS for photography in 2017 Brendon and I have learned a LOT about where our strengths and weaknesses lie. Thanks for being a part of this adventure in 2017 and we can't wait to report that we are practicing what we are preaching in this podcast!

Enjoy this Christmas Morning episode talking about our Goals for 2018 and recapping some of the "bests" we had in 2017. We begin the podcast talking about Jordan Younce's new adventure and the end of a chapter in his life. Then we go over his awesome recommendation on Picture Books, the best challenges, moments and images from 2017 and what we plan on doing in our Photography business goals for 2018! Sorry for the delay on this podcast causing all the Christmas Morning talk to be three Mondays too late, but a couple weeks of illness and crazy difficult time-sucking edits on the Oregon podcasts made it impossible to get this one out. Argh

We talk with James Kelly about our upcoming Faroe Islands Workshop that is going to be a tremendous experience that we couldn't have imagined and really hope twelve of you will want to join us this September! James talks about his connection to the Faroe Islands, his years of experience there, the weather, culture, awesome potential for Landscape Photography and the blast we are going to have from Sept. 10th through 17th out there! Learn more about the workshop here: https://goo.gl/oe5BB3 The Faroe Islands are an archipelago of eighteen islands half way between Scotland and Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean. We have created this workshop for you to experience photographing some of the most breathtaking scenery on offer with steep sided mountains that rise out of the sea to almost 1000 meters making them the tallest cliffs in Europe, small fishing villages with grass covered roofs, huge cascading waterfalls that flow strong after the smallest rainfall, deep like fjords and black sand beaches with tidal pools scattered all around. Each location we visit will offer a new adventure and we will even make the drive into the heart of the mountains of Vestmanna, Spáafelli on Suðuroy and to the summit of Sornfelli that stands almost 2500 feet above. The Islands are a true source of inspiration to anyone who visits. With the constant changing weather making every photograph unique.

The FOURTH episode of Astro Photog to get you excited about the newly returned Milky Way Core and next week's Lunar Eclipse! Get your long lenses ready to go for an awesome Blood Moon on the LOW horizon in the United States right before Sunrise! Article on Lunar Eclipse: https://goo.gl/SChbyL More on Lunar Eclipse: https://goo.gl/4E6dai

Andrew Marr is one of the top Landscape Photographers from Australia and we had a chance to hang out with him and talk the unique challenges of Perth, Australia area and the one thing you wouldn't expect from a coastal city like Perth. No clouds! Often, he can't even go out in the summer because there just are zero clouds in the sky let alone a quality and dynamic sky! We go over some of his favorite nearby locations in Perth, one of the crazy cool places he goes in his winters that is 17 hours away from him and we get a chance to hear about the behind the scenes of his trip to the UK where he hung out with Adam Karnacz of First Man Photography and a BONUS trip to Iceland! Follow Andrew's Work at: http://andrewmarr.com.au/ Or his YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSviZyZi6hJLDr5qpqpWEGA

To start on 2018 really well, we joined Jeff Pedersen, Tim McGowen, Drew Armstrong & Kirk Keyes out in Moab to enjoy never sleeping and lots of Photography! We just missed Ed Shanahan out here, it was really too bad we missed him on this trip but he got an AMAZING sunrise at Mesa Arch that Monday. Jeff and Tim bragged about it allll week long as we never had that amazing of a sunrise at any location but some really great sunsets where the sky just blew up with pink afterglow! We capture the Windows area in Arches National Park both for Landscape Photography and Milky Way Photography as well as Star Trails at Balanced Rock one night. Then Mesa Arch, Deadhorse Point and the Gossips for sunrises. Other than being crazy sick with Bronchitis, it was an amazing trip! See images and videos in the show notes at PhotogAdventures.com/ep68

Going out on a Saturday to the mini-Grand Canyon of Utah - the Wedge Overlook - for some fun location scouting and filming with the drone should be an easy going uneventful day. Well our trip with Daniel Lindhardt a couple Saturdays ago reminded us why some of you think of Photog Adventures as a Laurel and Hardy act or enjoy it because we are a couple of boneheaded photographers having a blast and you just enjoy our comedy of errors! This Photog MISAdventure starts out with some fun driving through Buckhorn Wash enjoying the Petroglyphs and Pictographs of the Archaic and Fremont Indians in the Barrier Canyon Style panel. But soon it turns into the panicked realization that we just flew our drone out beyond our reach, well at least not without a long hike! Come listen to how that 13-mile hike went and how the search turns out! GEAR TIME Tracker options: Tile Mate: https://goo.gl/eY8ciC TrackR Pixel: https://goo.gl/4A5bhV SHOW NOTES at http://photogadventures.com/ep69/

We spend a week in Death Valley with Jeff Pedersen and Tim McGowen doing Landscape Photography and Milky Way Photography over cracks, Badwater, Mesquite Sand Dunes, Charcoal Kilns and Racetrack Playa. In classic Photog Adventure style the curse lives on. February Milky Way Photography turns out to be fantastic just crazy brief and over the distant light bloom of Las Vegas. We talk about the challenges of really near foreground subjects in Milky Way Photography and remembering to focus stack! Show notes coming to PhotogAdventures.com/ep70 soon! But I wanted to get this podcast out ASAP so I will have to beg your patience as I add it later today! Check out our upcoming Workshops here: http://photogadventures.com/adventures/

In this episode we recap our first adventure out to Joshua Tree National Park and capturing a Milky Way Panorama over The Eye or Cyclops Rock and the amazing Joshua Trees on our way out to the LA area. With changes to our plans of getting out to the Yosemite Firefall we found ourselves in the area with lots of extra time so we booked a Day Trip out to Santa Cruz Island of the Channel Islands! We get to see pygmy Island Foxes and beautiful birds as they fly around the cliff faces of the Island coastline and enjoy a day out in a location we had no expectations of getting to see this soon! We talk about the challenges of getting your Milky Way low-level lighting right in a location you don't know especially when you get there in the dark and have to work fast with a quickly approaching Milky Way. Then we cover the experience out at the Channel Islands and how to best go about a day trip to Santa Cruz and make the most of your time there. We had a great time on this trip and saw a lot of different landscapes, people, wildlife and enjoyed the adventure with minimal hiccups. In the end of the podcast we talk about an amazing occurrence as we return to the mainland leaving the Channel Islands further and further behind we get to live through one of the most amazing experiences we have ever had in our lives!

Are you stoked to join us for a Milky Way Workshop this year? Hope you are crazy excited because our first one is only a month away on April 16th through April 20th! In this first Milky Way Workshop of 2018, we are taking 12 participants out to Goblin Valley State Park, Goosenecks State Park and Natural Bridges National Monument! If you have considered joining us for a workshop, seriously consider this one as we are selling it for 30% off the regular price and that price includes all travel and lodging! During the first 20 mins we share details of the four-night Milky Way Adventure and get crazy excited for the fun we are going to have with those of you lucky to join us in April!  After the first break we announce MilkyWayPhotographers.com an entertaining way for all of us Milky Way Photographers to keep up on our achievements and rank ourselves from Beginner to Master Milky Way Photographer! Check out more at http://photogadventures.com/milkywayphotographers/. We have been going out as Photog Adventurers to the Milky Way since March 8th, 2016 and we just barely hit the milestone of two years since our very first Milky Way! Stoked about the milestone, we go over all the places we have been to do Milky Way Photography since that morning on March and recount our a few of our biggest Milky Way Moments. Show notes are found at http://photogadventures.com/ep72/

Needing a March Milky Way and some good stories for the podcast, we drive all-night to the Butte in Hanksville, Utah that Royce Bair told us about. This shot is best during an early season Milky Way so we made the sacrifice of getting out there Sunday night through Monday morning to try our luck at getting an awesome Milky Way Image like Royce Bair did last year. In classic fashion, the only clouds in the 10% cloudy sky were hanging low on the horizon South East of us and covered our Milky Way core for most of the morning and then traveled towards us making a window of opportunity crazy slim. Being forgetful these days, Aaron left his shoes and some REALLY important gear that may have ruined the morning more than the clouds did. Show notes at http://photogadventures.com/ep73/ MAY ESCALANTE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/Ue6GWX CRATER LAKE & BANDON WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/8pq81i

In this bonus episode we share the stories of our Monday adventure back out to the Wedge Overlook and Buckhorn Wash area to look for our missing Inspire Drone. We share the fun and challenges of searching in this terrain, the beauty of this area, the dynamic clouds that made us weep tears of regret that we didn't have our cameras on us and you get to learn about Aaron's injury! Lots of fun in this quick podcast, enjoy! If you are considering any of our Milky Way Workshops there are three available to register for! Goblin Valley, Goosenecks and Natural Bridges Workshop: https://goo.gl/i7bhTk Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Workshop: https://goo.gl/Ue6GWX Crater Lake & Bandon, Oregon Workshop: https://goo.gl/8pq81i TWO MORE Workshop Dates are being set up for the Goblin Valley and Escalante Workshops and those registration pages will be setup soon! SHOW NOTES at: http://photogadventures.com/bonusdrone/

To our surprise, we get contacted at the end of last week by a Travel TV Show out of Ukraine! This show is called “Heads and Tails” or in Ukrainian “Орел и Решка” is the number one travel show in Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and 11 other countries! Heads and Tails features new travel destinations to their audience and show the most interesting things to do and places to visit. All with a pretty cool premise of flipping a coin at the beginning of each adventure and the winner of the coin toss gets an unlimited budget to do things with while the other only gets around $100! They also have a YouTube channel which has 1.3m subscribers. Which is awesome of course, but their TV Show gets 60 Million viewers! Amazed and honored, their producers of the show found Photog Adventures and decided we were the right guys to work with to help one of their Hosts get a Milky Way Timelapse in the world-famous dark skies of Utah! We take Anton and his small filming crew out to Goblin Valley Sunday night for an amazingly clear and beautiful night! In this Podcast we talk about the fun of being on a Travel TV Show, the interesting challenges of having a producer manage the narrative and create scenes and orchestrate everything from when we hand an extra pair of gloves to Anton to when we walk down the hill to our location for Milky Way Photography. Check out the “Орел и Решка” YouTube channel here to see the show we are talking about: https://goo.gl/szb9Sn Join me April 21st and learn from the Star Tracking Milky Way Master, Eric Benedetti here: https://goo.gl/v5KPHq Join Photog Adventures at a Milky Way Workshop this year! MAY ESCALANTE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/Ue6GWX JUNE CRATER LAKE & BANDON WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/8pq81i AUGUST GOBLIN VALLEY, GOOSENECKS & NATURAL BRIDGES WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/i7bhTk

This year's International Dark Sky Week is from April 15th through the 22nd and with the New Moon just yesterday we have a great week ahead of us to celebrate dark skies worldwide! In this week's Astro Primer I summarize the hours the Milky Way Core is visible this week in several places through out the world, North America, Europe at London and Italy, Japan, Chile, South Africa and New Zealand. Get your quick fix on what the skies are revealing to us with planets and meteor showers as well. Read the full article here: http://www.darksky.org/dark-sky-week-2018-2/ A paper on Street Lighting and Blue Light: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/03/f34/Street%20Lighting%20and%20Blue%20Light%20FAQs.pdf Join the International Dark Sky Association here: http://www.darksky.org/ Join me April 21st and learn from the Star Tracking Milky Way Master, Eric Benedetti here: goo.gl/v5KPHq Join Photog Adventures at a Milky Way Workshop this year! MAY ESCALANTE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: goo.gl/Ue6GWX JUNE CRATER LAKE & BANDON WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: goo.gl/8pq81i AUGUST GOBLIN VALLEY, GOOSENECKS & NATURAL BRIDGES WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: goo.gl/i7bhTk

Retired California Firefighter & lover of Photography in the Deserts of the Southwest, Jeff Pedersen, joins the show and shares stories and tips from his time doing Wildlife Photography in Africa and how to make money as a Photographer working in Art Shows selling your prints. We go over our hangout with Jeff out at Death Valley and then hear his stories of being in Kenya at a Photography Tour that gave him eight days and 14 Jeep Runs to capture the beautiful animals of Africa. Hear his success stories and about the one animal that got away that has him definitely going back to Africa again! Then lastly, Jeff generously shares his top tips for handling your prints, sales and booth in order to make the most money you can out of your weekend at the art show. While it can be a great way to pay for this awesome hobby, he warns us about the investment of time, money and sweat in order to be successful. Follow Jeff's work over at his Facebook page & Instagram through @RedCliffsPhotography. Or visit his website at http://redcliffsphotography.com/ ZAPP for applying to Art Shows nationwide: https://www.zapplication.org/ Pro Panels for Art Shows: https://www.propanels.com/

It is a Full Moon week, so it is even more crucial to learn what days are open for Milky Way Photography in today's Astro Primer and get reminded again why the Southern Hemisphere has a distinct advantage over the Northern Hemisphere for viewing the Milky Way Galactic Core year round! In today's episode I celebrate the FANTASTIC MOMENTS and confess the MAJOR FLUBS of my Eric Benedetti Star Tracking Online Workshop from over the weekend. There were some moments that were just magical that had everyone involved so crazy grateful for Eric's time, experience and knowledge! We learned so many great tips on how to not only become BETTER Milky Way Photographers but actually learned how to capably install and use a Star Tracker under our DSLR! We certainly got our money's worth with Eric's SIX hours of instruction we got on Saturday. And there is more to come too! Lastly, I go over three simple takeaways from the Workshop that highlight what we went over and what great interesting lessons are in store for those of us who have access to the workshop. Carboni's Astro Tools: http://www.prodigitalsoftware.com/Astronomy_Tools_For_Full_Version.html Annie's Astro Actions: http://www.eprisephoto.com/astro-actions Purchase the Replay and have Permanent access to Eric Benedetti's Star Tracker Online Course plus future content updates here: https://goo.gl/v5KPHq Follow Eric Benedetti at his website: https://www.ericbenedettiphotography.com/ Gear recommended for tracking: SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Astro Package with Declination Bracket included $329 https://goo.gl/VLdx4d SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Equatorial Wedge Base https://goo.gl/Yj8ZPy SkyWatcher Star Adventurer Counterweight Kit https://goo.gl/ShxymX Cameras for the beginner: Nikon D7200 https://goo.gl/8yiR0F Canon T5i https://goo.gl/UEiaMk Lenses: Rokinon 16mm f2.0 https://goo.gl/7oSP1w Rokinon 24mm f1.4 https://goo.gl/1rpaFi Sigma Art 35mm f1.4 https://goo.gl/E9U6fKS Optional tracker that is slightly less expensive: iOptron SkyTracker Pro Camera Mount with Polar Scope $299 https://goo.gl/UuojC9

Has Star Tracking made Single Image Milky Way Photography just a waste of time? The answer is NO! With Royce Bair in studio we get some pros and cons of both types of Milky Way Photography and hear from the Master Milky Way Photographer how to best take advantage of our time out there under the stars and get the most out of our images whether or not you do any star tracking. Royce shares with us some post-processing techniques he likes to use to reduce the noise in his single image photography using Nik Collections DFine tool as well as going for the small effort of a mini stack to reduce noise. Royce continues on to talk about his use of a astro-modded camera and the benefits that come from that as well as his rule of thumb he likes to follow for what makes an image an Single Image, Stacked, Blend or Composite. Along with that he gives his thoughts on the ethics of divulging whether someone used a composite to get an image they have shared or sold as a print. Follow Royce at Nightscaper.com or on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/roycebairphoto/ Buy Royce's eBook here: https://goo.gl/9F9PPf See our RedBubble Page here: https://goo.gl/FuiFcm Click on the words "AVAILABLE PRODUCTS 55" to see all of the RedBubble Options

We go LIVE on Facebook for Podcast 77 and have a discussion about Rusty Parkhurst's recent article on https://improvephotography.com/ "9 Tips to take your landscape photography to the next level". In our Landscape Photography, we all get there where we are enjoying our progress and have put in our practice of getting our f-stop right, bracketing like champs exposing for the highlights, composing great images, staying and waiting for good light and going the extra mile in our post-processing but then we hit a plateau. What can you do to get off that plateau and turn your landscape photography up to 11? During the discussion we actually are lucky to have had the delays with the tech when trying to go live for an hour and a half! Because Rusty Parkhurst was able to join us and we got instant feedback and comments from the great guy while going through his article! Listeners and Rusty chime in all the way through this podcast and it was a lot of fun for everyone involved! This is definitely something we would like to do more of in the future! Read the full article here: https://goo.gl/f5qfVF Follow more of Rusty Parkhurst at http://rustyparkhurst.com/

We sit down with Kathy, Nicole and Venkat our Escalante Milky Way Workshop Participants and get their takeaways from this week of hanging out under the stars capturing the Milky Way in this amazing and beautiful place! We share our adventure of capturing the Milky Way at Devil's Garden, Dance Hall Rock and Sunset Arch. Our first Milky Way Workshop of the year and we get AMAZING dark clear skies and everyone just fell in love with the sights at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Venkat, Cathy and Nicole share stories from the trip, what went well for them, any challenges and what they wished they knew before coming. We stay at Canyon Country Lodge and have a great experience in this beautiful new hotel here in Escalante and get a perfect headquarters for all our adventures out into the desert. Reserve your next stay in Escalante here at the Canyon Country Lodge and tell them Photog Adventures recommended it! https://goo.gl/GCYSdA Buy Royce's eBook here: goo.gl/9F9PPf See our RedBubble Page here: goo.gl/FuiFcm Click on the words "AVAILABLE PRODUCTS 55" to see all of the RedBubble Options Show Notes WILL BE LATE and will be loaded to PhotogAdventures.com the Saturday after this podcast is released.

White Pockets is a unique area of windswept sandstone near Kanab, UT. The sandstone there is not the typical red rock found in most of the Colorado Plateau – it’s not only white, but also yellow, orange, and even purple in places. And there’s Brainrock! It’s an amazingly interesting place for photographers. Jeff finds White Pocket to be more interesting than even another near-by location, The Wave. And White Pocket has many more locations to shoot than The Wave. The roads that access White Pocket consists of deep sand and patches of sharp rock. Four-wheel drive and high clearance are required. Don’t try this road unless you have experience driving under these conditions AND a vehicle that meets these requirements. Don’t try it with a car or even a RAV4-type vehicle. Don’t take a rental vehicle as you will violate your rental agreement. If you get stuck, towing fees will run about $1000 - $2000! THIS IS A DEMANDING ROAD! Jeff recommends not going alone – bring a buddy or two. Go with someone that knows the road or better yet, an authorized guide. It’s at least 2.5 hours for help to get there if you are stuck or have a medical emergency. Aaron got composition paralysis upon arrival, so he took a few shots with his phone, and then found some locations that the got super excited about. Using the wide-angle distortion of his Tamron 15-30 f/2.8 , Aaron used the leading lines of the wind-blown sandstone to frame up a shot. But the clouds were changing fast as sunset approached… Jeff and Aaron are looking forward to bringing Brendon out there someday – it’s going to be like watching a seven-year old opening presents at Christmas time! If you enjoy this podcast – please leave a review at iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite source for podcasts. Update from Episode 78 – We talked in about using the Metabones Speed Booster adaptors for Sony – they are for APS-C cameras, and not full frame. The speed boosting feature is not fully compatible with Sony Full Frame cameras – they are supposed to switch the Sony FF cameras into “APS-C Size Capture”. They should work fine with Sony APS-C cameras. Aaron found his Tamron was giving him color fringing on the edges of the frame. He finds this lens works great for Astro, but he wasn’t happy with some of the photos he took with it at White Pocket. Jeff suggested letting the camera convert the image from RAW to JPG by saving them as RAW+JPG when shooting. The camera conversion process Jeff says, in some cases, can make a JPG that sometimes looks better than the RAW, even when humans do the JPG processing. Jeff recommends bringing Sunpie Emergency Traction Mats They can be used to help your vehicle to get out of mud, sand, or snow. They cost about $70 for a pair on Amazon. For a sandy place like White Pocket, two pair of these might be best. Jeff’s final recommendation - If you go to White Pocket for Milky Way shooting, use lots of light when walking around. It’s easy to turn an ankle there so make sure you can see where you’re walking. Thanks to our Patrons – Support us: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures Thanks for listening / watching and see you next time! WEBSITE: http://www.photogadventures.com/ ABOUT: http://www.photogadventures.com/about/

To celebrate hitting a nice round number like 80 podcast episodes we do a LIVE Tech Test and Listener Q&A! Topics: Ukrainian TV Show has released the episode that we were a part of! https://youtu.be/YDk6ldgXtWA?t=27m41s AstroPhotog Podcast and changes coming up for the weekly AstroPrimer SLIK Milky Way Contest: https://goo.gl/uYy6Uu  Places we wouldn't go back to Brendon's only camera that he dunked in water....so far! How do you Post-Process your frames BEFORE Stitching your Panoramas? AVOID Auto White Balance when you do Panoramas and even with all of your Milky Way Photography Do we need Nodal Slides for our Panoramas? Money lost with gear, tires, engines, drones and anything else lost in a Photog MISAdventure Having issues with my feisol tripod L-Brackets and tripods saving time for your Milky Way Photography The road at Escalante and which vehicle you want for it After the Q&A we talk about our Milky Way Photography at Bryce Canyon Fairy Land Point where Royce Bair's ebook teaches us to do lgiht painting in Bryce Canyon in a way that you can't anywhere else in Bryce without hiking in there! Then we do a gear time about the Neewer lights that are MUCH CHEAPER than the F&V light that we have. We are talking the difference of $30 compared to $150! Neewer LCD Light Panel for Low-Level-Lighting: https://goo.gl/EhjL1j F&V HI-CRI LED Light Panel: https://goo.gl/nKgW3n Buy Royce's super informative and educational eBook "Milky Way Nightscapes" here: https://goo.gl/7oMpk3 CONTEST TO WIN ONE OF TWO COPIES OF ROYCE BAIR'S MILKY WAY NIGHTSCAPES BOOK! ALL OF JUNE to Capture a Milky Way shot somewhere you have never been before! So as long as you have never been there before, the Milky Way Shot will count! Submit to the Facebook Page under the Contest thread that will be added ASAP! :D (Think Saturday the 2nd of June)